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Hey^ nephew^ we have this bomb... The Poet’s Corner From the email world dept.... LMt week Police Chief Earl Lloyd had to aend Ibr a exploatve ordnance dlspoeal team fram Fort Jackeon, S. C. to do away with a 76 mm artillery ahell found at the depot. Ihe full atory with plcturea la In today'a laaue of The Mirror-Herald. When the Army chopper landed cn the practice field at Klnga Mountain Senior High, out popped two EOD men with their e<iulpment locker. Chief Lloyd waa making Introductlona. ".. .and thla la our newapaper editor. . “HeUo, Tom,” aald Capt. Hart "How’a It going, Rick,” I aald. “You two know each other?” the chief aaked. "SUghtly,” I aald. “Rlck’a In the family.” And he la. He’a married to my niece, my alater and brother-ln-Uw'a daughter. "Boy,” Chief Uoyd aald. “You run Into people aU over the country. Don’t you?” Then he told Capt Hart how he and I met 10 yeara ago in San Diego, Oallf. Rick la commander of the 48th Ordnance Detachment (EOD) at Fort Jackeon. Hla Job covera all of South Carolina, 17 countlea In weatem North Carolina and aeveral countlea In Georgia. Someone la alwaya finding unexploded bcmba and OI laaue artillery ahella. Rlck’a EOD team fly In and take the exploalvea away to deatroy them. Prior to Preaident uaner's mauguranon laat January Rick waa aaalgned to check out €DITORIW.^&OPiniOn9 Pcige 2A Tuesday, June 14,1977 Saturday promises to be funfilled for KM citizens Next Saturday should be a fun-fUled and informative day in Kings Mountain. / It has been designated Ole’ ’Timey Town Meeting Day at the Kings Mountain Depot Center. ’The center will be dedicated to the pubUc also at the festivltlee. ’Iburs of the recently renovated faculty wUl be conducted and visitors wiU be treated to free musical concerts. Citizens are urged to bring picnic baskets and spend the day. Beverages wUl be provided free. atlzens will also have an opportunity to express their own ideas on programs the city could undertake that would be of mutual benefit to the community at large. Workshops in which the picture of the city’s future wlU be drawn. But more than an Infonnative meeting, this occasion provides citizens the rare opportunity to gather for some old fashioned “visiting” and fun together. ’Ihe Mirror-Herald urges you to make plans to attend between 9 a. m. and 4 p. m. this Saturday. Women phut revolt, if... TOM MclMTYRG the streets, manholes end underground passages beneath the reviewing stand. “’Ihere were over 1,800 manholes to be checked as weU as the tunnels beneath the streets,” Rick said. ”We almost froze checking those things out in the wee hours of the morning. The underground passages were something else. Down there it must have been over 100 degrees. Working down there, then coming back into the open where it waa freezing really hurt.” Rick and I caught up on all the family newz before he and his team ztrapped themselves into the chopper for the hour’s ride back to Columbia, 8. C. -oOo- And speaking of police acUvlty. . . . A dtlzen called in a strange bit of In- fCrmation last Wednesday. “I want to report a man,” the caller aald. “What about him?” the dispatcher aaked. “He’s naked as a Jayblrdl” The young dtlsen waa taking a shortcut through the woods to his home when he flushed another young man from the bushes. Both at them were surprised. The first fellow moreso because the man from the bushes was wearing only a startled expression above his birthday suit. Speaking to the North Carolina House Insurance Committee in Raleigh on Tuesday, Assistant Federal Insurance Administrator, Frank Reilly, told the general assembly members of the com mittee that recommendations from a paid consultant to develop Insurance legislation sounded much like views the Federal Ad ministration Office hears from Kemper Insurance. That consultant, John Hall, la on the Ad visory Board of Kemper. Reilly then went on to say that North Carolina had been an innovator in insurance reform under Insurance Commissioner John Ingram. Reilly aald North Carolina was in better shape for the consumer and the in surance Industry than any state in the nation. Reilly said New York’s major RG^D€R DIMOGUG My sincere appreciation To Whom It May Concern, I am writing with sincere appreciation in regards to one of your business dtlsens — Sam Scott, Jr., owner of East King Exxon. On the night of Friday the 18th and all day the 14th I had an unfortunate occurance. I had had work done a second time on my camper in Shelby and I was really disap pointed in the results. When I got to Kings Mountain I found I couldn’t continue my trip. I waa forced to pull in at the East King Exxon Station. Sam Scott and his staff went out of their way to be kind and had an overall decent attitude to me over my unscheduled stop. Having been "stuck” a second time on my camper repairs left me with a most un- deslreable attitude. A few kind words from Mr. Scott brought me back to reality and a mors cheerful outlook. The young man chzMed the naked man through the woods, but when they hit the railroad track the naked runner was gone like a Jackrabblt. ‘Chief Lloyd said the naked runner should be easy to identify. He’ll be the one with the scratch marks all over his body. “I followed the route through the woods he took,” the chief said. “He ran through briars, and tore off limbs in his flight” The chief said police know the IdentUy of the streaker and where he lives. ’The problem is he was not identified by anyone who saw him running publicly in the buff and he made It home before the police nailed him. WelllU, they call him The Streaker. Fastest thlngon two feet.... Don’t look, Ethel! •aOo- Oalllng all sidewalk superintendents! According to Gene White, executive director of the Klnga Mountain Redevelopment Oommlzslon, Bradley- Jenkins Co. will be in town Mon., June 380 to demoUsh mere condemned buildings. The buildings slated to go are from the comer of S. Cherokee St. down to Ckiftln Drug Co. Lewis Dellinger and Bill Fulton have outlet stores set up in these buildings now, but will be out by next weekend. The buildings from Warllck Insurance to the comer of S. Piedmont St. are also dated to go — that la if the city removes sunilles stored in them presently. This section belongs to the city and wiU be used in con nection with renovation of the present. city hall as the police department when the admlnUtrative, business and fire depart ments move into the new Governmental Services Facilities Building to be con structed on the farmer Bonnie Mill property on W. Gold St. A RENDEZNOUS. WITH YESTERDAY The old house brags about a now face But deep roots remain the same. With towering oaks reaching upward Shading the veneer frame. Fancy columns have been replaced ^e trimmings on the double door. The mimosa tree still blossoms pink As in bright days of yore. Memories echoes are sounding ^ Sweetly ringing ’ore the hill. In the touching, bittersweet eventide I reminisce by the watermill, A house niay change the face But the ghosts remain the same, Andpaaalan fiowera on the vine Bears no other name. The spring day seems identical Except a different calendar year. The same bright sun is shining On a spot that warrants revere The sky overtiead portrays The same wonderment of blue. Misty mountains scallop the skyUne With the same astounding view. Morning glories open to greet the dew ^ In the Cherry trees bluebirds sing. In a rosy arbor beside the veranda The breeze moves an empty swing The old house brags about a new face And a coat of brick veneer. But the mimosa tree stlU blossoms pink As another time and another year. VIVIAN STEWART BILTCLIFFE problems prove that higher rates do not stdve the problem. A consiuner who came all the way from Stokes Cfounty was irate over the possible increases that both the House and Senate bills could bring If passed. By Hall’s own admission, the Increase would be 64 million dollars alone the first year. Mrs. Elsie Dearmln expressed those concerns to reporters. She said about 300 women will drop all their insurance and continue to drive their cars without in surance If the general assembly approves a bfil that would strip the sUte insurance commissioner of authority and increase Insurance rates. Mrs. Dearmln said her movement would qnead across the state. How Laws Grow He let my party and I use his phone and park my camper overnight on his lot. TTw nextday when I rented a truck, Sam and his staff located a ramp and hefoed us load the VW camper Into the track for transport. So, an in all, the trip wasn’t too bad, even though I am disgusted with the performance of Narron Auto Parts in Shelby. I suggest if you want tourist to come end spend their time and money, have more courteous and responrible stations like Sam Scott’s. Words caimot e)q>ress my gratitude for this gentteman and your remarkable City of Kings Mountain. I hope Mr. Scott wlU be commended for thU, and I’m sure, numerous other courtesies he has extended to travelers througti your city. mWARD P. BIARLER St. Petersburg, Fla. Tar Heels set an example On June 6,1917, a nationwide registration was held for the draft in World War One. North Carolina set an example In patiioUam that day for the rest of the nation, one that provides a sharp contrast to the sorry q>ectacle provided In our own recent past by draft-card burners and other “peaceniks.” There were parades instead at demon strations, and six percent more men (ages 31-80) actually reglstersd thsui the census had Indicated were In the state’s population. A total of 480,401 men signed up, and draft officials later speculated that many had actually lied about their ages in order to register! -oOo- On June 10, ISCI, Heniy Lawson Wyatt, of Edgecombe County, earned the unfortunate distinction at being the first Confederate soldier killed In action. He was killed at Big Bethel, Va, In the Ovll War’s first batUe, a Confederate vlctoiy now described by historians as a “minor, scrambling con tact.” North Carolina supplied more men to the war than any other Southern state, 136,000 in an. It also suffered the greatest casultles, some 40,000 klUed. -oOo- On June 6, 1844, the HUtorleal Society of North CkroUna held Its first meeting, in Chapel HIU. The association was organised by U. N. C. Preaident David L. Swain, who had earlier S* OTTH been, at 81, the stote’s youngest governor (1883-86). Swain was responsible for preservaUon of many of the state’s priceless early records, without which today’s historians would be lost -oOo- WUllam Sidney Porter, ”0. Henry,” one of America’s most fonwus wrtUrs, died at hU home near WeavervlUe, N. C., near AshevUle, on June 6, 1010. He Is burled in Artievllle’s Riverside Cemetery, not far from the grave of the state’s other most- lamoiw author, Thomas Wolfe. Porter was also bom In North Carolina, near Greensboro in 1883, and was raised in that city. He moved to ’Texas at the age of 19 to work on a ranch owiMd by friends In North Carolina. Later convicted at bank fraud (on circumstantial evidence) Porter served time In an Ohio prison, then moved to New York dty to beg^ his writing career. One at this nation’s most prolific writers, he often produced a short story a weak for newspapers, usually containing the surprise ending that became hU trademark. -oOo- Benjamln Hawkins, of Warrenton, one of this state’s original U. S. Senators, died June 8, 1818. Hawkins had earlier served In the Continental Congress. He resigned hlz Senate seat in 1796, when ^>polntad by President Washington as Indian Agent to the Creek Nation. Sincerely Interested In thSi' welfare of the original Americans, Hawkins served for twenty years as Agent, earning the title from then "Beloved Man of Four Nattons,” the Creek, Choctaw, Oierokoe and Chickasaw tribes. ns nephew, WUUam Hawklm, served as his assistant for a few yeara, then returned to North Carolina to enter politics, serving as Oovemor of the state during the War of 1813. •oOo- Locke Craig, of Bertie County died on June 9, 1936. He served as Governor (1918-1?) during a period when the state was unusually well-represented In notional affairs. Former N. C. rssldent Woodrow Wilson had ap pointed Josephus DanleU Secretary of tl» Navy. David F. Houston Secretary of Agriculture, and Walter Hines page am bassador to England.
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